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The Land Trust Annual Review 2022

Green Angels

Green Angels The Land Trust’s Green Angels programme which provides free environmental
supported our training and education, makes a huge difference to the lives of our trainees,
helping many into further education and employment. It’s a great way to learn
communities, new skills, meet like-minded people and make a difference to the local
with courses environment.
and activities The programme was launched as a pilot in Liverpool in 2013, and since then has
which focused gone from strength to strength, enhancing our community engagement offer at a
on making number of sites around the country.
people feel safe, In April 2021 we were all emerging from months of lockdown and restrictions,
whilst being able feeling our way out into the new normal. Green Angels supported our communities
to venture at this time, with courses and activities which focused on making people feel safe,
whilst being able to venture outdoors again and embrace companionship and
outdoors again teamwork.
and embrace
companionship At Hassall Green Nature Reserve, in Cheshire, this was the third year in our five
year programme of activities. We started off slowly with two natural craft
and teamwork workshops, learning to make charcoal pencils, elder whistles, natural cordage and
beads among other things. This was followed by our first ever Green Angels Dry
Stone Walling course which created a beautiful feature (and a couple of seats!) on
the edge of the car park on site. It immediately became a haven for wildlife too, Hassall Green Nature Reserve, Sandbach, Cheshire Countess of Chester Country Park, Chester
with frogs and toads moving in after the first day of construction!

We launched As we re-gained our confidence in working with others, Green Angels continued
an 18-month apace with courses in Bushcraft and Survival; Scything; Horticulture and Wildlife
Green Angels Gardening; Wild Wellness and the construction of a fabulous timber roundhouse at
Hassall Green, which provides a wonderful legacy for site users into the future.
programme in
October 2021 at We also ran a very successful summer open day at Hassall Green, with a focus on
traditional crafts. Our visitors could see demonstrations from a blacksmith, a dry
Port Sunlight stone waller, chainsaw sculptor, and join in with Bioblitz and children’s activities
River Park, with a before enjoying a cup of tea and some lovely homemade cake.
consultation We launched an 18-month Green Angels programme in October 2021 at Port
event, followed Sunlight River Park, Merseyside, with a consultation event, followed by some
by some winter winter wreath-making and then a Well-being in Nature course which was very
much enjoyed by our participants. The River Park is a fabulous place to deliver
wreath-making Green Angel’s activities and we are looking forward to our full programme of
and then a activities throughout 2022. Plans include courses in wildlife identification,
Well-being in countryside fencing and hurdle making, a summer playscheme for children and
summer and winter community events.
Nature course
which was very At our sites in Warrington we continue to run regular Green Angels volunteering
much enjoyed sessions along with more formal activities including fungi and wildlife walks, and a
horticulture and countryside management course.
by our
participants At Davy Down Riverside Park we have run two courses in Wildlife Habitats and
Biodiversity, and Environmental Education. Both courses were very well received,
and it was great to be able to encourage community engagement and involvement
here, as the site has so much to offer both in terms of habitat development and
Port Sunlight River Park,
Merseyside, bird watching wildlife conservation, and as a learning resource - a very special place to be!

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